The Faculty Senate Tuesday will get up to speed on the university’s various ongoing administrative searches.

Eastern is currently looking for a new president and new a new dean for the Lumpkin College of Business and Applied Sciences and the College of Sciences. Martha Brown and Mary Anne Hanner, respectively, have been filling those dean positions in the interim while Lou Hencken, vice president for student affairs since 1992 was chosen to fill the role of president until a permanent replacement is selected.

Separate committees were formed to aid in the search for replacements in those positions and also for the new position of associate vice president for academic affairs for technology. The search committee for the new associate vice president position has already finalized its recommendations and sent them forth to Provost Blair Lord.

Faculty Senate Chair Bud Fischer, biological sciences professor, said Lord may attend Tuesday’s meeting to give the senate an update on the status of the associate vice president position. He said the senate also has several other issues to address.

“We’re going to continue discussion on recruitment and retention,” Fischer said. “And I think the two other things we’re going to talk about are the commencement activities, and I think we need to talk about the Spring Forum.”

The university’s Commencement Committee, which is considering changes in the schedule of graduation activities, will meet for a final time on Friday before sending forth its recommendation to the President’s Council, which will make the final decision.

Fischer said he would like the senate to make a recommendation Tuesday on how it thinks commencement activities should be changed so that the recommendation can be passed on to the committee before it meets Friday.

The senate will host the Spring Forum next semester. It serves as an opportunity for to discuss an issue that is currently relevant to the campus. The senate has yet to determine what the issue will be.

The senate also will discuss a Council on Academic Affairs proposal to establish uniform dates for curriculum change. Fischer said he would like to see how senate members feel the proposal will affect teachers’ ability to change courses.